The 88 Illini: #32-#29
I'm just gonna tell you want parenting is like at my age and then I'm gonna get to the next four players on The 88 Illini. Actually, I'm going to tell you what grandparenting is like.
I'm currently with the entire fam
Robert
Interceptions 2026
Year 14 for the interceptions article. If you want to read any of the previous posts, just go up to that spyglass search thingy in the top left corner, type "interceptions" into the box, and you'll see the last eight articles all in order.
And since
The 88 Illini: #36-#33
Well, the email just came through announcing the first press conference for the fall. Which means that the season is actually here. Time to buckle in and tell my wife "we won't have any open weekends until April - is that OK?" again. And time to... wait,
Cornfields
I'm starting this post in Leverett. I'm on the evening train bound for Chicago and Big Ten Media Days tomorrow morning. Leverett isn't really a town. It's the grain elevators and maybe two houses along the train tracks north of Champaign but
The 88 Illini #40-#37
I noted this on Twitter just now but I wanted to write something about it as well. We'll get to the next four players on the list here in a moment but first I wanted to write something about the block I logo. If you're not
The 88 Illini: #44-#41
Another quick reminder that the latest 88 Illini post won't always be at the top. I published two articles the other day and "Blip" was in front of the latest 88 Illini post. So if you didn't see it (and I know many of
Blip
45 days until the football season. That's kind of insane. When you combine the whole "there's no angst at all" thing that I wrote about a few weeks ago (there are small, meaningless concerns right now but overall, the Big Two programs are as